The Internet’s Baghdad Moment

This week the Internet trounced CNN and other mainstream media in informing the world of the civil unrest following Iran’s elections. Many are talking about Twitter beating CNN but I believe that misses the point. If there were no Twitter the word would have spread via WordPress, LiveJournal, Blogger, TypePad, or any number of other venues for self-publication. It is the ability for anyone to get their message out to a large audience that ensures events like this do not go unnoticed by the world.